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Poem by Ina Donna Coolbrith


The Birth of Love


God made the world and found it ‘good’.
An Angel Him beside
Wept softly, and, to question, said
‘For what Thou hast denied.’

‘And that? ’ God asked him tenderly,
‘What is the lack thereof? ’
‘Its Soul’- the Angle made reply
And God created Love.



Ina Donna Coolbrith


Ina Donna Coolbrith's other poems:
  1. Meadowlarks
  2. Helen Hunt Jackson
  3. Memorial Poem
  4. Unbound
  5. The Day of Our Lord


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